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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Silvetone and Selvestone, from the genitive case of an Old English personal name, either Sǣwulf (see Self) or Sigewulf (‘victory wolf’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Silberstein.

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